Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
Back in the 60s, Phil Ochs described a liberal as “10 degrees to the left of center in good times and 10 degrees to the right if it affects them personally”.
I agree that most people understand it to mean anyone left of center, but the meaning of a weak or disingenuous leftist who often sides with the enemies of the left goes back a while.
Wooo! IEC type I! Shoutout to the greatest!
1/1 is the birthday of all horses.
or like tabla music or droning stuff
Have you listened to gamelan music, from indonesia? You might like it.
That quote instantly reminded me of my “i have boring work to do” music, which also includes gamelan orchestras and beiguan music, though beiguan can be a little too distracting at times.
One time after a rough night with my partner’s mental health issues flaring up, i barely slept and was too tired to be distracted at work.
If i wanted to do something it just happened, i just did it. And kept doing it. Until it was done.
It felt like having a superpower, but i don’t think i want to recommend emotional stress as a dopamine trick.
It was almost certainly written by gpt, you can tell because it doesn’t make any sense but still manages to be objectively incorrect.
Information already is knowledge, and that’s not what gpt does.
I don’t know that it’s wise to trust what anthropic says about their own product. AI boosters tend to have an “all news is good news” approach to hype generation.
Anthropic have recently been pushing out a number of headline grabbing negative/caution/warning stories. Like claiming that AI models blackmail people when threatened with shutdown. I’m skeptical.
This this this. It’s basically impossible to get that rich without having endangered others.
North and south are fundementally different, climate and biosphere -wise, so i don’t think it would ever make sense to people to modify the same word to describe two very different things. East and west maybe less so, but dawn and dusk are pretty important differences.
Some polynesian cultures use two main direction words, which usually translate as something like mountain-ward and beach-ward.
You gotta say “nor-nor-east” instead, that’s a blast.
There are several more. My favourite is proprioception - the sense of where your limbs are. Phantom limb syndrome exists because we have proprioception.
I guess i don’t really see the point. Is there a strong use case out there, or is this a marge’s potato? (“I just think they’re neat”)
A large community of child predators is a great opportunity - to expand roblox into a prestige networking site for the republican party.
This is my process for cooking too. “Find a recipe, follow it, enjoy”, turns into “Find a recipe, follow it, :(”
Empathy is a trait that almost all individuals of many mammal species possess. Lethal intra-species violence is also a behaviour observed in many (all, i’d guess) of those same species.
Individuals, their peers, their social networks, their identities, institutions and the specific situation all influence behaviour. When those line up one way, we do a murder. A different configuration and we do a cuddle.
It makes no sense to suggest that humans are either inherently good or bad - those are artificial concepts that don’t even have a fixed meaning within a single human identity group. At the end of the day we’re just organisms exhibit behaviours to meet needs.
The catholic church would absolutely use sainthood to whitewash the legacy of a rapist, but i’m sure that position has plenty of promising internal candidates.
Ugh last time i helped my father dig a hole it was basically rocks held together with clay. Shovels are a joke, the only thing that works is a stick.
My favourite atm is that kirk’s wife had him killed.
In reality, an open elite controls world governments and economies.
People always seem to think killing hitler would help, but part of the reason no one assassinated him is because the allies wanted hitler alive to continue making terrible decisions.
Imagine how much worse the first trump regime would’ve been if trump wasn’t making any of the decisions - we don’t have to imagine because we’re living it now.